Job Description
- Create and implement a strategic vision for the purchasing function, ensuring that policies, processes, and procedures are in place to meet business objectives and operational needs
- Monitor global market, industry trends, new technologies, and economic factors to assess and communicate their potential impact to the business; and develop and implement strategies in response
- Develop commodity strategies that provide quality supply, world-class technologies, and the best long-term total cost
- Establish pricing, quality, and delivery targets that will enable the company to function and compete effectively in the market.
- Seek and partner with reliable vendors and suppliers both domestic and international to develop an overall vendor base that creates and sustains a competitive advantage
- Monitor the cost, schedule, and performance aspects of supplier agreements Assure the Procurement organisation has strategies and plans for cost savings, risk reduction, and supplier selection and are on track with their execution
- Identify supplier needs based on production plans and sales projections to proactively close gaps and maintain uninterrupted production
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience within the Procurement function ideally in a leadership role
- Experience in the medical devices/consumer goods/health care industries will be preferred
- Broad knowledge of supplier management procedures with a good understanding of working in a high matrix environment
- Provide leadership to the purchasing team to ensure that established procedures are followed